Written Reflection on the Video Joke Assignment --**Videos are posted further down**

For our video joke, we chose the joke involving the Economist, Mathematician, & Accountant. I directed the video with humans (not the one with the stuffed animals). In that video joke, we utilized movement to convey the meanings we wanted to get across because we were to voice-over the dialogue. How we did this was by having the characters in the video show emotion with their hand gestures, the way they walked, sat, and acted with their body language. We also utilized line in this video with the eye contact that was presented between the characters, and by the character's directionality of where they were sitting and facing as this line showed who had the dominating power over the other character.
In the 2nd video, we decided to use Kramer's script involving stuffed animals. With this video, we had to utilize shape because we were using the stuffed animals. Our reasons were because we thought the shape of each animals body would help present the animals position of power. For example, the pig was a circular shape, which helps show power, and the pig's character was powerful as he was the economist that gets the job. Meanwhile, the duck's shape was more triangular, and we chose that character for the duck because the triangle shape presents a less dominant character. We also had to utilize rhythm for this video because, as the animals do not have real movement, we had to create rhythm to the movements so that they seem realistic and catch the audience's attention.

As I discussed the contrasting elements between the two videos, there was some affinity. This occurred with the tension and release created by the scripts' joke: the audience tensed for the beginning, wondering if this businesswoman/businessbear will find a person for the job. Then the economist comes in and gets the job, and the audience is released.